1 Title, interpretation, commencement and application
1 The title of these Regulations is the Education (Postgraduate Master’s Degree Loans) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018.
2 In these Regulations, “the 2017 Regulations” means the Education (Postgraduate Master’s Degree Loans) (Wales) Regulations 2017.
S.I. 2017/523 (W. 109), amended by S.I. 2017/712 (W. 169).
3 These Regulations come into force on 19 April 2018.
4 These Regulations apply only in relation to the provision of support to students in respect of a course which begins on or after 1 August 2018, whether anything done under the 2017 Regulations is done before, on or after 1 August 2018.

Amendment of the 2017 Regulations
2 The 2017 Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.
3 In regulation 4 (designated courses), for paragraph (2) substitute—

“2 For the purpose of paragraph (1)(a) the course must be one of the following—
(a) a full-time course of one or two academic years’ duration; or
(b) a part-time course which is ordinarily possible to complete in up to four academic years.”

4 In regulation 12 (amount of postgraduate master’s degree loan), in both places where it occurs for “£10,280” substitute “£13,000”.
Kirsty Williams Cabinet Secretary for Education, one of the Welsh Ministers 27 February 2018